America (Modern Classics) - Softcover

Franz Kafka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140026398 ISBN 13: 9780140026399

Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS, 1974

Synopsis

1970, Paperback, 270 pages

About this title

About the Author

For his translations, acclaimed poet Michael Hofmann has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Dublin International IMPAC Award, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and The Schlegel-Tieck Prize (four times). He is the highly acclaimed translator of, among others, Kafka, Brecht, and Joseph Roth.

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His major novels include The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika.

For his translations, acclaimed poet Michael Hofmann has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Dublin International IMPAC Award, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and The Schlegel-Tieck Prize (four times). He is the highly acclaimed translator of, among others, Kafka, Brecht, and Joseph Roth.

Review

A century after his birth he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament. -- John Updike, The New Yorker

His writings are the beautiful and fantastic prolegomena to Buddhism which he never chose to formulate. -- Aldous Huxley

Kafka never wrote a more accurate picture of Central Europe than in his novel Amerika. -- Eleanor Clark, The Griffin

This fantasy of a New World, so full of a childlike genius...this strange book—Amerika. -- Thomas Mann

Edition details

• Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0140026398
• ISBN 13: 9780140026399
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4